Randy ARTEAGA RIVERA

Musician and rapper Randy Arteaga Rivera was conditionally released on 16 January 2025, following negotiations between the USA, the Vatican and Cuba. Arteaga Rivera was convicted of  ‘contempt’ and ‘public disorder’ in April 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison in relation to his  while participation in peaceful protests against restrictions on rights, scarcity of food and medicines, and the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, popularly known as the #11J protests (see Case Lists 2023/4-2025).  

Randy Arteaga Rivera, born on 3 December 1990 and better known as Randy AR, is a musician and rapper whose songs criticise repression and the social situation in Cuba.